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OAK LAWN, IL School board elections hardly ever get attention, but it s worth taking the time to learn about them, if only because our public schools receive more of our property taxes than any other local taxing body.
This is especially true at CHSD Dist. 218, which includes Richards, Eisenhower and Shepard High Schools as well as the Delta and Summit Learning Centers. The district is headquartered in Oak Lawn and Oak Lawn accounts for the majority of the D218 s population (about 20%), with the rest split among 10 other south suburban communities.
Yet despite this, State Rep. Bob Rita (Blue Island) is trying to take control of Dist. 218, which should concern every honest and hard-working citizen in communities served by the high school district.
UpdatedTue, Dec 15, 2020 at 1:27 am CT
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Filing to run for school seats in the April 2021 elections began Monday in Cook County. (Shutterstock)
OAK LAWN, IL Candidate filing to run in school board elections in the upcoming April 2021 Consolidated Election opened Monday, with 482 candidates filing to run for school boards across Cook County. The candidate filing period lasts through Monday, Dec. 21, 2020.
School board candidates brought their nomination petitions on Monday to the Cook County Clerk s office in downtown Chicago, the Elections Operations Center in Cicero, and at filing centers in Orland Park and Mt. Prospect.
With four seats open on the Oak Lawn Community High School Dist. 229 school board, three candidates filed on Monday. Incumbents Rob Loehr and Judy Ott filed their nominating petitions, along with newcomer Edward Wolf.